Oops.

[AndrewBird]

Any plans to reinforce the mounting holes? Washers epoxied on the underside would work pretty well.

[pantelones]

Started fixing the lip this weekend. I superglued the cracks and broken off pieces back together, just to get the thing into one piece again.

Then yesterday, I used a palm sander to sand all of the bedliner off, and get the cracked sections flush. Once they were all sanded down, I turned the backside. I used fiberglass tape to reinforce the cracked sections. I laid down one coat of plastic epoxy, pressed a strip of tape into it, saturated with another coat, laid in another strip, then saturated again with more epoxy. When the cracks are all repaired and dry, I'll be repainting the lip again with the same bedliner I used before, but I'll also be coating the backside where the major repairs were done.

A day late and a dollar short, but when I had done my plastic bumper conversion I had spoken with a really high caliber body shop about how to bond the ABS plastic. They suggested a heavy bevel, tack with a soldering iron, 2 part epoxy (plastic weld) and window screen or pantie-hose (both plastic bases) for a re-enforcement. They specifically said to stay away from anything fiberglass, or glue oriented as they are too brittle and will not bond properly. Yours seems like it should hold, and if it breaks again, try the method I used :up:


Prep


IMG_4686 by Los Pantelones!, on Flickr


Applied a decent amount of epoxy, then mixed and spread somewhat evenly. Then layered three pieces of window screen and "squeegeed" the epoxy through them until I was happy with the coverage.


IMG_4695 by Los Pantelones!, on Flickr

[F34R]

Looks good! now go smash it again ;)

[Jand3rson]

Any plans to reinforce the mounting holes? Washers epoxied on the underside would work pretty well.

Probably not, only 2-3 of the holes actually broke out, and one of them was right on the main crack down the middle, so I just filled it with epoxy, and I'll re-drill it. Still plenty of holes for solid attachment.

Pantelones, I like the window screen material idea. This fiberglass tape I used was really just in there as something to span the cracks and give the epoxy a little more of something to grab on to. If this thing does break again, I'm probably just going to replace it. Besides, like I said above, I'm repainting the whole thing front and back with bedliner again.